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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Here's an good example of just that. To rational people "Pearl Harbored" would mean a sneak attack. The invasion of Iraq was hardly a secret. Saddam and the whole world knew it was going to happen months in advance. Misusing that term repeatly indicates it's being used to inflame and incite an emotional response rather than relying on facts to convince the reader.  |
I agree, we did not 'Pearl Harbor' Iraq. We did, however, invade the country on what appears to have been a trumped up pretext, which is pretty much what Hussein did when he invaded Kuwait. Right now our current adminstration is locked into the 'we did it to free Iraq' story. Really the only two choices they have is that they made a mistake based on bad intelligence or deliberately misled Congress to acheive a goal they desired all along. So instead of impeachment for incompetence or deceit, we have an 'accidental war of liberation', and a 'freedom occupation'.
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